Pharmaceutical preparation



PatentedJulfBl, 1923. I I 1,463,539

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES G. WOLFE, OF MOUNT VERNON, OHIO.

PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATION.

No Drawing. Application filed March 8, 1922. Serial No. 542,111.:

To all whom it may concern: powder in milk. I'have found the prepara- Be it known that I, CHARLES G. l/VOLFE, tion applied in the manner stated to be very residing at Mount Vernon, in the county of efficacious, a complete cure being effected in Knox and State of Ohio, have invented cera very large percentage of the cases tested.

tain Improvements in Pharmaceutical Prep- While, as above stated, a preparation hav- 50 arations, of which the following is a specifiing ingredients in the proportions indicated cation. has been found to produce the best results,

This invention relates to pharmaceutical the remedy is effective even though the propreparations, and more particularly to remeportions are varied within limits, and it is,

among fowls. to use the remedy with proportions depart- My invention is applicable to a disease in to some extent from those above given.

commonly met with among domestic fowls T'Iaving now described my'invention, what of the species known as turkeys, the disease I claim as new and desire to secure by Letin question being commonly called black ters-Patent is as follows: head. This complaint is due to a diseased l. A pharmaceutical preparation for condition of the liver of the turkey, the liver treating the disease of fowls known as enbecomin enlarged and covered with yellow terohepatitis consisting of calomel and rhuspots. o far as can be determined, the disbarb in approximately equal proportions,

case is due to the character f the food eaten together with a small percentage of 'char- 65 by the fowl and is probably caused by a coal. V smut which sometimes occurs upon grain, 2. A pharmaceutical preparation for, such as wheat and corn. The head of a turtreating the disease of fowls known as en-Q key afliicted in the manner above described terohepatitis consisting of about 50 per cent turns black; hence the term black head. calomel, per cent rhubarb and 5 per cent This disease is a very serious financial charcoal. menace to persons engaged in raising tur- 3. A pharmaceutical preparation for keys, as it is almost invariably fatal, and treating the disease of fowls known as en heretofore no adequate remedy for coping terohe atitis consisting of about' 50 per cent 30 with this disease has been obtainable. I calome 45 per cent rhubarb and.5. per cent have discovered, however, as a result of a charcoal, thoroughly mixed in. powdered series of experiments, that. this disease may form.

be cured by the internal application of a 4:. A pharmaceutical preparation for preparation consisting of mild mercurous' treating the disease of fowls known as en'- chloride or calomel, as it is commonly called, terohepatitis consisting of approximately and rhei radix, commonly known as rhuequal proportions of powderedcalomel and barb, together with a small amount of carbo rhubarb mixed with powdered charcoal, in ligni or common charcoal. Preferably, the proportion of about one part'of charcoal these ingredients should be mixed in powto ten parts of each of the other two ingre- 40 dered form inthe proportions by weight of dients. 8

dies for certain common diseases prevalent therefore, within the scope of 'my invention I.

50 per cent calomel, 45 per cent rhubarb In testimonywhereof, I have signed my I and 5 per cent charcoal. name to this specification this 4th day of The powder thus obtained maybe admin- March, 1922. V istered to a fowl suffering from the com- 4 plaint above referred to by stirring the CHARLES G WOLFE. 

